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With a warm and comfortable environment, the Pub could become a fixture more akin to the Lamont Café than a final club with strict rules. This area currently fosters a rather unique café culture at Harvard, where one can go to people-watch, commiserate over papers, and encounter long-lost friends...
...isn’t, keep in mind what Edmund Burke once wrote: “All that is necessary for evil to triumph is for good men to do nothing.” At this point in time, ignoring the devastating forces of climate change is akin to promoting them. If “good men do nothing” to stop this crisis, whether out of apathy or disdain for the means, the fight is lost...
...global domination theory would see him join Hendrick Motorsports in a lineup somewhat akin to having Michael Jordan, Larry Bird and Magic Johnson all on the same team. Hendrick, which has won six of the last seven Nextel Cup races, is home to four-time Nextel Cup champion Jeff Gordon, who recently passed Earnhardt Sr. on the career wins list, and defending champion Jimmie Johnson, as well as Kyle Busch and Casey Mears. With the four-team limit on owners imposed by NASCAR, either Busch or Mears would have to go, but Dale Jr.'s appeal to sponsors and fans...
...According Nall, who is also W1AF’s station manager, their towering antenna is akin to ones installed in many national embassies...
...kind of talk sets off alarm bells for critics who view any easing of military limits as the beginning of a backslide into wartime aggression. (Former Singaporean leader Lee Kuan Yew memorably summed up these fears years ago when he said that allowing Japanese participation in peacekeeping operations was akin to giving liquor-flavored chocolates to a recovering alcoholic.) But despite the LDP's legislative success, constitutional revision is far from certain-and even if it does happen, the role of Japan's military is unlikely to change in a threatening way. Pacifism is too entrenched and too convenient...